And when the battle’s over
There’s the silence of the wind,
And peace.

And when the battle’s over
There’ll be peace.

But no one left to know?

We’ll rest,

In peace.

(BLACKOUT)

SCENE 6

(NIGHT. MAN enters with a bundle of clothes.)

MAN: It’s nearly midnight.
Put these on.

WOMAN: What did you find out?

MAN: Before dawn,
A white van,
A cleaning van,
In Tel Aviv,
Will bring Allah’s vengeance.

WOMAN: Allah’s vengeance?

MAN: That’s all I could learn.

MAN: It’s five minutes after midnight.

WOMAN: Five minutes after tomorrow.

MAN: Are you ready to go?

(A rumbling sound is heard, growing to mf, then
fading)

WOMAN: What was that?

MAN: It was Tel Aviv.

WOMAN: That’s over 20 kilometers from here,
How could we hear it?
Unless…

MAN: I’d say 5 kilotons at least.

WOMAN: Oh, God! No!

MAN: How could they be so stupid!
Those fools!
So blinded by hate!

WOMAN: There’ll be reprisals.

MAN: An eye for an eye;
Until there’s no one left to hate…

WOMAN: Or love.

(They embrace. More rumblings are heard in the
background. Distant sirens are heard.)

BOTH: When dreams are swept away,
And the jagged edges of crystal time
Have etched their painful mem’ries in the hourglass;
When angry seas crash
Upon the upturned fist of the shore,
Well worn, well worn,
And the clay breathed no more;
When blinding truth and reality collide
Into time’s crystal,
Blinding, binding,
And the sounding of the bell,
The deep sounding of the bell,
Prophesying the virtues of the sand,
The sounding of the bell,
The sweet sounding of the bell,
Tolling for the dust.
Then tears shall fall,
Falling for the counter of the sand.

About Briseadh na Faire

While it looks like the FCC will be enforcing Net Neutrality, the vote isn’t until tomorrow. There’s still time to make your voice heard, and to ensure it, your message will go to the Jumbotron in front of the FCC. Here’s the link:

Yes, and the hints dropped by various Russian pols and media reminding the West that Russia is nuclear (not that Ukraine disarmed in 1994 in return for US, UK and Russian security guarantees – the Budapest Memorandum).

Again, as Churchill observed, as the point of no return was passed when appeasement was simply an act of doing nothing… Merkel has got a war – it’s just where she chooses to fight it.

I would be willing to bet that each and every one of these freaks is on tape whining about how they are “defending the Constitution”. Too bad they have never bothered perusing anything but the 2nd Amendment and they only read half of it.

from our friends at Wikipedia
…”under the Incorporation doctrine, the Bill of Rights has been broadly applied to limit state and local government as well. The process of incorporating the two Religion Clauses in the First Amendment was twofold. The first step was the Supreme Court’s conclusion in 1940 that the Free Exercise Clause was made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment… Conceptually, this raised few difficulties: the Due Process Clause protects those rights in the Bill of Rights “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,”…and free exercise of religion is a quintessential individual right (and had been recognized as such at the state level from the beginning).”

. . . When dreams are swept away,
And the jagged edges of crystal time
Have etched their painful mem’ries in the hourglass;
When angry seas crash
Upon the upturned fist of the shore,
Well worn, well worn,
And the clay breathed no more;
When blinding truth and reality collide . . .

Brings to mind T.S.Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” —

. . . Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Funny. I think most everyone who gets news from anywhere but FAUX”News” was well aware that Bill0 is a bald-faced liar, shameless self- promoter, bully, and all around dick but it’s taken the “librul media” till now to start calling him on it. Heck! All they would have had to do is occasionally check Media Matters and they would have all the relevant facts complete with clips and transcripts. I’m actually starting to think there might be something to his claim that it’s in retaliation for his comments about Brian Williams and the “librul media” in general. Not that they have to make anything up to make Bill0 look bad it’s just that they always seemed reluctant to call out his crap. Is it possible that they have finally decided that no one with an IQ higher than an eggplant cares if Bill0 calls them “far-left loons”?

Whatever. It’s fun watching him squirm and throw tantrums and, if they can just space the allegations out, he might be too busy retaliating to lie about current events for a spell.

Oh yeah, in case you missed it, yesterday he was so flustered that he all but admitted that he’s a partisan hack. The bit about giving a platform to conservatives and “traditional people” with no mention of being “fair and balanced”.

That’s sadly true. But? If he loses credibility with even a few casual viewers it’s a job well done. And there is some room for hope. I never thought they would boot Glenn Beck either. If Rupert and Roger decide that he’s hurting their brand the only thing keeping them from turning him out is the near certainty that he already has a tell-all book in a safe deposit box waiting for news of his demise to see the light of day.